Zynga’s quarterly report by the numbers

Zynga announced its first-ever quarterly reported as a public company today. Here are the relevant numbers:

Q4 GAAP net loss: $435.0 million loss vs. $42.9 million profit a year ago.

Q4 GAAP revenue $311.2M vs. $195.8M a year ago.

Q4 non-GAAP net income: $37.1M vs. $63.1M a year ago. (Big difference due to $510M Q4 expense related to stock compensation for employees due to IPO).

Q4 non-GAAP earnings per share: 5 cents vs. year-ago 9 cents (3 cents expected)
Q4 bookings: $306.5M vs. $243.5M a year ago.

Daily active users: 54M up 13 percent from 48M a year ago.
Monthly active users: 240M, up 23 percent from 195M a year ago.

Monthly unique users: 153M, up 38 percent from 111M a year ago.

Average daily books per average DAU: 0.061, up 11 percent from 0.055 a year ago.

Monthly unique payers: 2.9M, up 13 percent from 2.6M a year ago.
Games released in 2011: 12, including 4 on web and 8 on mobile.

Full year outlook for 2012 bookings: $1.35B to $1.45B

Full year expected adjusted EBITDA (earnings before income tax, depreciation, and amortization): $390M to $440M

EPS projections for full year: 24 cents to 28 cents a share.

Mobile DAU: 15M

Ad revenue: tripled in 2011.

Payer base in 2011: 12.2M

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.